25 September 2016

'We can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and
turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white
supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t
believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to
irresponsible people.'

At the same time, Princeton students are demanding the Woodrow Wilson School be
re-named, U. of Missouri is petitioning to remove Thomas Jefferson's
statue, and San Fran's School Board president has even said he'll re-name every school
bearing the title of a slave owner.

It is surely any people's right to wipe out the names
of past heroes who ruffle current mores. We've seen Stalin and Lenin
statues come crashing down in Eastern Bloc countries since the wall
fell.

But Stalin and Lenin were proper génocidaires who
oversaw the repression, imprisonment, torture, and death of tens of millions. Washington
and Jefferson were founders of their nation who, uncontroversially in their
time and place, owned slaves.

But even if one were to convince them that
slaveholding was not
controversial in those days, this John Wayne dust-up opens a whole new can of worms. Are California's civic leaders even dimly aware of the kind of realtalk in which nearly all our prominent men of yesteryear engaged? Wefear they are not. May we gently remind them that When an out-group seemed to under-perform, or
over-perform, or just act differently,people noticed.And commented.

Such was the way of the world--and still
is, in most of the world. Only ethnic NW Euros seem to have caught the disease that pushes them to sing the praises of 'diversity' while at the same
time loudly claiming we'reall exactly
the same.

As more and more decisions must be made about naming holidays, schools, bridges, airports, highways, erecting and demolishing statues... How shall our civic leaders be expected to cope? If they start subjecting each historical figure to the 'didn't say anything that offends me today' test, they are in for some sore and cruel disappointment.We at TWCS would very much like to help them. First, by acquainting them with the fact that the past was, indeed, a real-talking country, as the quotations we are about to share will show.